Insect Snack Industry

Know about Insect Snack Industry

Insects as food or edible insects are species of insects used for human consumption, for example, whole or as an ingredient in processed food products such as hamburger patties, pasta or snacks.

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Some of the key players of Insect Snack Industry:

Chapul Cricket Protein, Cricket Flours, Eat Grub, Edible Inc., Entomo Farms, EXO, Jimini’s, Six Foods, Thailand Unique

Commonly eaten insect species

Estimates of the number of edible insect species consumed worldwide range from 1,000 to 2,000. These species include 235 butterflies and moths, 344 beetles, 313 ants, bees and wasps, 239 grasshoppers, crickets and cockroaches, 39 termites and 20 dragonflies, as well as cicadas. The species consumed vary by region due to differences in environment, ecosystems and climate.

The table below lists the top five insect orders consumed by humans around the world, taken from Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security by Arnold van Huis, Joost Van Itterbeeck, Harmke Klunder, Esther Mertens, Afton Halloran , Giulia Muir and Paul Vantomme.

Order of the insect  Common name           Consumption rate worldwide by human population (%)Coleoptera               beetles                                                                  31Lepidoptera             butterflies, moths                                                 18Hymenoptera           Bees, wasps, ants                                                 14Orthoptera               Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets                            13Hemiptera                Cicadas, leafhoppers, leafhoppers                      10

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